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Published by Jonell Galloway + Saturday, August 23, 2014 Permalink 0

Welcome — the doctor is in! We offer a menu of services to writers at all levels. Even if your prose is in fine health, we want to help you notch it up to peak performance. You will appreciate our competitive pricing. If you select two or more classes, we are pleased to make you an introductory offer of a 10% discount.

Food Writing Classes

Our 1-hour classes for groups are offered at $30 per person, and we offer the same classes, one-on-one, with lots of custom features, at $90.

Writing Doctor Services

Our doctoring services, for individual writers only, are priced at $90 per hour. And we’re fast. If you have an especially big project that you want us to price either by the page or by the job, we will be happy to give you an estimate, and we will stick to it. We’re ambitious for you, and will put our shoulders to the wheel to make good things happen.

Writing Doctor Services

Published by Jonell Galloway + Friday, August 1, 2014 Permalink 0

Writing Doctor Services

Welcome — the doctor is in! We offer a menu of services to writers at all levels. Even if your prose is in fine health, we want to help you notch it up to peak performance. You will appreciate our competitive pricing.

Our doctoring services, for individual writers only, are priced at $90 per hour. And we’re fast. If you have an especially big project that you want us to price either by the page or by the job, we will be happy to give you an estimate, and we will stick to it. We’re ambitious for you, and will put our shoulders to the wheel to make good things happen.

Individual Doctoring

Your manuscript may only need a little discussion, a light edit, proofreading, and — whoosh! Show it to us, and we will make recommendations, gratis. If in our opinion you need substantive editing, we’ll say so.

Editing

Our copy editors check for content, overall structure, structure within paragraphs, clarity, style and accuracy of research work, and citations. They can also check that your manuscript is in line with in-house style requirements.

Developmental Editing

Writer support for ensuring a manuscript’s structure and broad direction. This may require adjustments in tone and significant adaptation. This is a baggy category — we won’t know what you need until you show us. Ask us for a quote.

Proofreading

We offer full proofreading services for manuscripts that have already been revised and edited. This covers grammar, spelling, punctuation, and other details that may have been overlooked in anticipation of sending out your final manuscript.

Writing

For all ghostwriting and co-authoring projects, please contact us directly.

Translation

We translate menus and other food-related texts from and to all romance languages and English.

Formatting

Formatting of your manuscripts in word processors or on blog platforms when technical requirements prove it to be overwhelming.

Classes

Writing Basics 101, Beginning Writing, Essentials of Food Writing, Editing and Revising Your Own Manuscript, Word Processing 101, How to Start a Food Blog, Building a Social Media Presence/Branding. For experienced writers: Crafting an Online Presence, Ebooks. 101. Click here for more detailed information, or go to the Writing Doctor section. If you have more questions, click here to write us

Food Writing for Beginners

Published by Jonell Galloway + Monday, June 16, 2014 Permalink 0

Program for Beginning Writers

A. Start where you are (Beginning Writer)

Dear Diary

Writing about the things you wouldn’t talk about if someone asked you casually: How was your trip? How was the big dinner?

Dear Friend

In the world as a writer

Writing a letter to a dear, or even an imaginary, friend

Dear Reader

Building a repertoire of work for readers who don’t know you yet

How to engage them

Craft of Writing Checkpoints

Making sure the nuts and bolts are in place – this is grammar, spelling, word count, formatting, proper computer use, and other issues that ignoring will deal you out.

B. Becoming More Vivid and Unmistakable as a Writer (Next after completing Beginning Writer, or Jump in here for people who skip beginning writer)

Sensuality Upgrade

Good Observer Upgrade

Story-telling and suspense building

Building your brand as a writer, building a body of work (your own blog)

Classes one-on-one or very small group

Critique, edit, get a finished product, develop a plan